At the deepest level people are madder than they want to believe. You will find that they fear being eaten, and are alarmed by their desire to devour others.

Fundamentalism is dictatorship of the mind

If jealousy was the vindaloo of love, I'd imagined her tongue burning, and such a fire forcing her to spill her truth.

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President.

You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

...I love 'yes.' It's practically the most interesting word of all, don't you think?" Like a hinge opening a door outward. Yes, yes, yes.